The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-30
A BLOODY STRUGGLE.
Report That Mwanga Has Been Badly
Defeated.
Fronl the Nelp York SIM.

Defeated.
From the NetC York Sun
while ago it was reported that Mwanga,
the King of Uganda, who has made himself
famous by numbering Bishop Harrington
and hundreds of native Christians, had sent
an army north to eat up his enemy, Kabba
ReSga' the King of Unroyo. Themessengers
VINO returned to Zanzibar last week, after
informing Emin Pasha that Stanley was
coming to his relief, say the war has been a
hot and bloody struggle, and that Mwanga,
VINO sits In the seat of power that thirty-Six
canquering Kings of Uganda haveoccupied,
has been badly defeated The rulers of
Uganda for centuries have been brilliantly
successful in warfare. Even Unyoro, with its
100000 Inhabitants and its proud kings, who
came from the warlike Galas of East
Africa, has long been little more than 81
suzerainty of Uganda's souveri sovereign.
But now the army of invincible Uganda has
been beaten by Kabba Rega, who. Sir
samuel Baker says was despised by Mtesa,
tne father OF Mwanga, as a person worthy
only of contempt There seems to be much
truth in the saying that it is the unexpected
that always happens in Africa. 1.-THE won
derful fertile country of Unyoro, as Baker
calls it, lies east of Albert Nyanza, and with
wide strip of it extending far southwest
NONN~AANS
1t was through this corner of Unyoro that
Stanley passed when he discovered the
almost unknown Lake Muta Nzge, and
it is this region and the district
north of it between Muta Nzige and AL
bert Nyanza that was devastated by last
springs bloody contest. 1t is not likely
that the war interfered with Stanley's prog
ress, for it was carried ON in regions that
lie south and east of his line of march.
War hnt1xrao,, tyyD snYol
Uganda and Unyoro is no petty quarrel
Both countries have well organized govern
ments, and disciplined armies, and hundreds
of their soldiers are armed with muskets
Ugandas army of $4,000 men, and the
machinery by which the Kings will is
promptly carried into effect in all parts of
his dominions have often been described.
But less has been heard of Kabba Rega's
country, which has been ruled for fifteen
generations by the ancestors of the present
sovereign. Unyoro is divided into
many districts, each of which is
governed by chief who is held re-
sponsible to the king for the state of this
province 1t was Kabba Rega who said to
Baker when the latter was urging him to
open his country to commerce: "Oh, bother
trade. Don't talk of merchandise, but let
us talk of guns and gunpowGer. When you
have helped me defeat Mtesa, who invades
Jul Adilllo elliu Oll OuI utTuS anu
women and children, it will be time enough
to talk of trade" 1t was never Kabba
Rega's good fortune to triumph over Mtesa
in war, but he has now gained at least
temporary triumph over the son of the great
king whom Spoke discovered. The world
will not be sorry that the butcher of Uganda
has received drubbing at the hands Of
Kabba Rega, for while Mwanga has shown
himself to be the enemy of the white races,
Kabba Rega has recently done many a
good turn to Ennin Pasha and his be-
leaguered comrades. II have nothing but
praises for Kabba Rega," wrote DIR. Emin
last year. HE invited me and my COM
rades to take refuge in his town, and when
my soldiers needed clothes he twice sent me
a supply" One cause of the recent hostili-
ties between Uganda and Unyoro was the
fact that Mwanga was greatly incensed be-
cause Kabba Rega had befriended the white
prisoners of the Soudan. The past seven
teen years seem to have greatly improved
the character of this ruler, for the young
king, 20 years old, whom Baker described as
an incorrigible rascal a terrible coward and
a shameless murderer, is the same person
whose praises Emin Pasha has been sound
ing, and who has just defeated his greatest
enemy, the King of Uganda.